Photos of the Past

Photos of the Past sells historical photographs from The Ron Blum Collection. Our photographs are predominantly Australian, but there are some international images also. We have over 50,000 images from the mid 1800s through to the middle of the 1900s. We have vintage images of places and people, ships and planes, funny things and sad times, the famous and the infamous.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please contact us. We still have thousands of images to upload to our website.

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Check Out Our Books!

GEORGE ROSE: The Postcard Era

George Rose, the Postcard Era is a companion to the author’s previous book, George Rose, Australia’s Master Stereographer, which covers the stereo-views produced by George Rose following his journeys around the world with his 3-D camera.

The story of George Rose, a great Australian photographer with a catalogue of all his known 3-D views taken from the 1880s to 1920. Illustrated with over 280 photographs taken on his photographic journeys around Australia and the World.